Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Pete Riss Draws Mike Barnett and/or Mike Danger

I noticed at separate times that these Fawcett stories were
by Pete Riss and that the first two Mike Danger stories
in Charlton's Danger and
Adventure (#24 and 25) were by
him too. Since the earlier issues of the Charlton title contained
Fawcett inventory material, I figured the Mike Danger stories were from
that company, but off the top of my head couldn't figure where.

When they bought material from Fawcett, of course Charlton didn't get
the rights to TV character Mike Barnett. They pulled a Windy and Willy
on him in these reprints. When I finally connected the stories, I saw
that the Grand Comuics database IDed the retitled Charlton story "The
Racing Stable Mystery" (D
& A 24, June/55)
as reprinting "Death Goes to the Races" but didn't give
the source of "The
Mint of Dr. Dionysus" (D
& A 25, Aug/55), which
wasn't retitled.

The first two Johnny Adventure stories, in
those same issues, look like they were lifted from Alex Raymond's
Jungle Jim, and I have no idea whatsoever if it was directly,
or from where.